Santiago Tourist stats for May

[sillydoll]

During the month of May, of the 19 848 visitors who visited the Tourist Office in Santiago, the majority, 11 055 were foreigners who came from over from 44 different countries.
The greatestnumber were Germans with 2674, followed by French 1,712, Italy, with 1033, United Kingdom, with 668 inquiries, the U.S. with 509.
The Netherlands, with 464 and Portugal, with 370, Ireland, 285; Austria 278 and Canada 248. This means that within the top ten are mostly tourists from European nations.

Australia 222, followed by Brazil with 214 queries, then there are the Japanese (206), the Swiss (165), Belgium (160), the Swedes and Danes (139 each) Poles (133), Finland (132), Mexican (115), Korean (111) and European citizens of countries not mentioned above (101).
AFRICAN PRESENCE: Tourists from African countries like South Africa (32) or other nations of this continent registered under the heading of the rest of Africa, with 83.
New Zealand (36), China (13) or the rest of Asia ( 32).
Venezuela (49), Colombia (40), Czech Republic (37), Uruguay (34), Norway (27), Israel (23), Chile (20), Esolvenia (15) Hungary (13), Peru (13), Slovakia (11), Romania (11), Greece (10) and Russia (9).
In addition, 49 tourists from other American countries not listed above.

With more than forty-four different nationalities it is no longer enough to master English to be a tourist guide in the Galician capital.

el correo gallego.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

From the Pilgrim Office:

During the month of may 2010, 28.787 pilgrims were received at the Pilgrim's Office. The number of pilgrims in the past Holy Year, 2004, during the same period was 16.862. Of those pilgrims, 12.262 (42,60%) were women and 16.525 (57,40%) men. 24.620 (85,52%) pilgrims arrived on foot, 4.042 (14,04%) by bicycle, 120 (0,42%) on horseback, and 5 (0,02%) pilgrims on wheel-chair.

Pilgrims' Age:
4.077 pilgrims were younger than 30 years old (14,16%), 18.417 were between 30 and 60 years old (63,98%), and 6.293 were aged above 60 years old (21,86%).

Pilgrims' Motivation:
Religious: 15.531 (53,95%)
Religious and Cultural: 11.869 (41,23%)
Cultural: 1.387 (4,82%)

Pilgrims' Nationality:
Spanish: 17.264 (59,97%); Most of the pilgrims came from Galicia: 4.955 (28,70%); Madrid: 2.359 (13,66%); Cataluña: 2.187 (12,67%); Andalucía: 1.525 (8,83%); Comunidad Valenciana: 1.249 (7,23%); Castilla León: 1.081 (6,26%); Pais Vasco: 829 (4,80%); Castilla la Mancha: 587 (3,40%); etc.

Foreigners: 11.523 (40,03%); Most of the pilgrims come from the following countries: Alemania: 2.608 (22,63%); Francia: 1.398 (12,13%); Italia: 1.166 (10,12%); Portugal: 849 (7,37%); Holanda: 443 (3,84%); Irlanda: 443 (3,84%); Austria: 416 (3,61%); Estados Unidos: 409 (3,55%); etc.

Starting Points:
Most of the pilgrims received in this period started their Way to Santiago in: Sarria: 5.798 (20,14%); S. Jean P. Port: 2.588 (8,99%); Cebreiro: 2.362 (8,21%); Roncesvalles: 1.762 (6,12%); Tui: 1.621 (5,63%); León: 1.474 (5,12%); Ponferrada: 1.347 (4,68%); Oporto: 1.053 (3,66%); etc.

The Chosen Routes:
Most of the pilgrims chose Frances-Camino de: 20.876 (72,52%); Portugues-Camino: 3.608 (12,53%); Via de la Plata: 1.594 (5,54%); Norte-Camino de: 1.267 (4,40%); Primitivo-Camino: 704 (2,45%); etc.

 

[Priscillian]

I continue to wonder how the stats would be affected if there was a separate category simply called "Spiritual".
T

 

[Ribeirasacra]

Boy do they love those stats. here in Spain.

With more than forty-four different nationalities it is no longer enough to master English to be a tourist guide in the Galician capital.

But English will be the common language for most tourists. Having tourist information printed mainly in Galician could put visitors off coming to this part of the world.

 

[ivar]

The source of these statistics is the pilgrims office... :
http://peregrinossantiago.es/eng/post-p ... adisticas/

..I tell you, it has looked relatively clam so far.. but today.... there are a lot of people in town.

Saludos,
Ivar